Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Pope

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Alexander Pope

Time conquers all, and we must time obey.

Alexander Pope

I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

Alex Winter

Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke.

Alex Haley

The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.

E. M. Forster

It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.

Douglas Merrill

Time is life. To waste your time is to waste your life.

Doug Larson

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.

Doug Larson

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

Doug Larson

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

Donna Brazile

I you don't value your time, no one else will.

Dylan Thomas

Too many of the artists of Wales spend too much time talking about the position of theartists of Wales.There is only one position for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.

Dylan Thomas

Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Douglas Adams

Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

Douglas William Jerrold

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Dorothy Day

One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

Dorothy L. Sayers

all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

Donald Rumsfeld

Control your own time. Don't let it be done for you. If you are working off the in-box that is fed you, you are probably working on the priority of others.

Don Marquis

There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

Dweezil Zappa

Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Dalai Lama

One of the expressions of Western over-reliance on technology can be seen in the lack of patience in industrial society. When you deal with technology, everything happens at the touch of a button. This conditions you to become so impatient that when you have an emotional or personal crisis, you don't allow time for the solution to take effect. This leads to all sorts of rash responses, like quarrels, fights and so on.

Dion Boucicault

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Diogenes

When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

Derek Walcott

Time is the metre, memory the only plot.

Anthony Powell

A dance to the music of time.

Amos Bronson Alcott

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

Anthony Eden

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

Anna May Wong

Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul.